Joseph Domenech
Joseph Domenech
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We are not blaming the countries involved who are doing all they can. But it is proving very hard to shut down markets, to slaughter chickens. Livestock is many people's livelihood. It is very worrying.
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The Middle East and northern African countries should be able to build up a line of defense against avian influenza. FAO is more concerned about the situation in eastern Africa, where veterinary services, due to various constraints, should have more difficulties to run efficient bird flu campaigns based on slaughtering infected animals and vaccination,
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The fears are very high because many African countries are not in a very good position to respond to this kind of crisis, ... If there is no more support for veterinary services in Africa, then we may face a very, very severe problem.
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The countries urgently need international assistance to build up basic surveillance and control systems.
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The countries concerned and the international community have to make every effort to ensure that bird flu does not become endemic in Africa.
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FAO is concerned that poor countries in southeast Europe, where wild birds from Asia mingle with others from northern Europe, may lack the capacity to detect and deal with outbreaks of bird flu.
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The close proximity between people and animals and insufficient surveillance and disease control capability in eastern African countries create an ideal breeding ground for the virus,
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Without financial incentives, people will probably continue to hide outbreaks and sell infected poultry.
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Everything has to be done to find out exactly where the virus came from, since it would be a big surprise to find it in South America.
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Birds play a role in the primary infection of the country, but then after that there's no need for wildlife. It will spread very easily from one village to another through trade,
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We've recently started to become more worried about transmission in the wild, particularly after the big outbreak among migratory birds in Qinghai,
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The priority to prevent the pandemic still stands on Asia, but besides that, if the virus is coming in Africa, yes, it's a very big worry for us.
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We are very much worried and surprised since we thought Turkey had the capacity to respond.
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There is still a window of opportunity for substantially reducing the risk of a human pandemic evolving from H5N1 by controlling the virus at its source, in animals.